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ED FREEMAN WAR HERO PHOTOS
Captain Ed Freeman — November 14, 1965 A Company, 229th Aviation Battalion, Vietnam War veteran, awarded Medal of Honor.

MEDAL OF HONOR Recipient

Captain Ed Freeman served second-in-command of A Company, 229th Aviation Battalion in 1965-66. On November 14, 1965, he flew a Huey helicopter in support of LTC Hal Moore and the 1/7th Cavalry fighting against three battalions of NVA at LZ X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley. Captain Freeman flew 14 missions into the face of enemy fire over the course of the first day to deliver much needed ammo and water, and to evacuate wounded soldiers. He was eventually awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions at LZ X-Ray on July 16, 2001.

Please see the California Indian Education index of Native American Indian Medal of Honor recipients.

Legendary E-mails archived by www.calie.org

You're a 19-year-old kid.

You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, on November 14, 1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam.

Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.

You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out.

Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away and you'll never see them again.

As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.

Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter..!!

You look up to see an unarmed Huey!! But.... it doesn't seem real because no MediVac markings are on it.

Ed Freeman is coming for you..!!

He's not Medi-Vac so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway — even after the MediVacs were ordered not to come.

He's coming anyway.

And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board..

Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the Doctors and Nurses.

And, he kept coming back! 13 more times!

He took about 30 of you and your buddies out who would never have gotten out.

Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise, ID.

May God Rest His Soul.

VIETNAM HUEY HELICOPTER
Vietnam war era Huey helicopter.

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